[spectre] Curatorial Ego: Conference and PhD Workshop

[Joasia]

Research Seminar and Public Conference
9-11 December 2012,  Århus Kunstbygning, Denmark

Curatorial Ego 

Organised by Århus Kunstbygning Contemporary Art Centre
and Institute of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark

Keynote speakers:
Joasia Krysa, Artistic Director Århus Kunstbygning, Visiting Associate
Professor, Plymouth University, UK,  dOCUMENTA (13) curatorial agent, and
author of Curating Immateriality (New York: Autonomedia 2006)
Chus Martinez, chief curator dOCUMENTA (13), Associate Curator MACBA,
Barcelona.
Paul O'Neill, independent curator, author of Curating Subjects (London: Open
Editions, 2007), The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s) (MIT
Press 2012).
Livia Paldi, Director BAC ­ Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, Visby, Sweden,
dOCUMENTA (13) curatorial agent.

/ with video contribution by Lars Bang Larsen, independent curator and
researcher.

While traditionally the practice of curating has been derived from museology
and art history disciplines, the second half of the twentieth century has
seen the rapid development of the curatorial field in its own right and a
proliferation of curatorial practice (and curators) with a broader range of
influences. 

The corresponding shift of emphasis from production to mediation of art - or
what has been otherwise described as 'the curatorial turn' - has added a new
degree of visibility for curators. At the same time, in particular since the
1960s artistic practices have drawn closer to everyday practices and
encouraged active participation of audiences in meaning production (via
post-structuralism, second-order cybernetics, etc). Yet despite the emphasis
on 'relations' and the distributed knowledge, this has ultimately tended to
enhance the reputation of the curator, who initiates and manages the
open-ended experiments in the 'laboratory' of art, arranging not just
artworks but artists and audiences too; an approach typified by the figure
of the celebrity curator.  With an increasingly competitive world of
biennales, blockbuster exhibitions, and the global art market at one end of
the spectrum, and experimentation with technologically mediated curatorial
systems at the other, the issue of curatorial agency, subjectivity and
authorship becomes even more pertinent.

Århus Kunstbygning and Institute of Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus
University, Denmark, host a public conference and a research workshop to
examine the role of the curator in contemporary culture addressing the
following questions:
* How curatorial agency manifests itself in the shifting and expanded field
of production? 
* How to balance artistic decision, institutional strategy and curatorial
power? 
* How co-productive exhibition processes, and multiple agencies and actors
can be represented in the final exhibition-form
* How algorithmic culture relates to curating? What are the new ways of
thinking and conceptualising curatorial processes in relation to the
performances of machines and automatisms derived from algorithms?

The one day conference is free and open to public. The two day workshop is
directed to PhD students and researchers.
Conference registration and workshop application deadline 15 November 2012

For further information and how to register please see:
http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk, or, contact AKB Communications Office
Birgitte Sonne Kristensen, P: +45 86 20 60 55, M: bk at aarhuskb.dk.



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